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  • HOW TO BE A BAD EMPEROR
    HOW TO BE A BAD EMPEROR
    SUETONIUS
    "Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was secretary of correspondence for the emperor Hadrian and author of the multi-part biography, Lives of the Caesars. A landmark in the development of realistic biography-writing, this work gives an account of twelve emperors, beginning with Julius Caesar. In each biography, Suetonius moves beyond the great events of Roman history and sets out to re...
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  • THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON
    THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON
    TOM SPANBAUER
    The cult gay classic of the early 1990s, reissued to mark the year of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots Between nights, earning his keep at Excellent, Idaho's outrageously pink whorehouse, Shed or, Duivichi-un-Dua - lives a life of drinking, talking and smoking opium stardust with his eccentric family. But soon, he will leave this tiny turn-of-the-century town in sea...
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  • CRAZY RICH ASIANS
    CRAZY RICH ASIANS
    KEVIN KWAN
    Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, N...
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    12,50 €

  • CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
    CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
    NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
    FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' SUNDAY TIMES 'So good. This one is from the heart' STEPHEN KING *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR *LONGLISTED FOR THE TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 Ente...
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    12,50 €

  • THIS WOVEN KINGDOM
    THIS WOVEN KINGDOM
    TAHEREH MAFI
    Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people--New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi's first novel in this epic, romantic fantasy series inspired by Persian mythology. To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, ...
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  • ASLEEP IN THE SUN
    ASLEEP IN THE SUN
    ADOLFO BIOY CASARES
    Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She's been staying out till all hours of the night and grows more disagreeable by the day. Should Lucio have Diana committed to the Psychiatric Institute, as her friend the dog traine...
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    17,95 €

  • PRIDE
    PRIDE
    MATTHEW TODD
    For 50 years, people have flocked to San Francisco for the annual Pride Parade, a beloved event that serves as a celebration and demonstration for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. Pride explores the history of the LGBTQ movement including events such as Stonewall and the global explosion in Pride Parades, and is a comprehensive account of the ongoing challenges facing th...
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    24,99 €

  • THE INVISIBLE HAND
    THE INVISIBLE HAND
    ADAM SMITH
    Adam Smith?s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ?invisible hand?. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves ? and each other. Th...
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    7,49 €

  • BELLADONNA
    BELLADONNA
    ADALYN GRACE
    'A deliciously deadly Gothic romance' Stephanie Garber THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! For as long as Signa Farrow has been alive, the people in her life have fallen like stars . . . Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her wellbeing - and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relat...
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    12,50 €

  • THE FORGING OF A REBEL
    THE FORGING OF A REBEL
    ARTURO BAREA
    An astonishing trilogy of books, collected in one volume, documenting the tumultuous first half of the 20th century in SpainThe Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War.Arturo Barea's masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkl...
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    18,75 €

  • MISTAKES WERE MADE
    MISTAKES WERE MADE
    MERYL WILSNER
    When college senior, Cassie, spends her Friday evening at an off-campus bar, she isn't looking for a hook-up - it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her best friend drags her along to meet her mum... who turns out to be the hot, older woman Cassie just slept ...
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    13,75 €

  • SPAIN
    SPAIN
    MICHAEL REID
    An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable two-party system has spli...
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    23,75 €

  • ENDLESS NIGHT
    ENDLESS NIGHT
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl a...
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    12,50 €

  • VICIOUS
    VICIOUS
    V. E. SCHWAB
    La 4ème de couv. indique : "Victor and Eli started out as college roommates--brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in one another. A shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death-experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abi...
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    12,50 €

  • CALL THE MIDLIFE
    CALL THE MIDLIFE
    CHRIS EVANS
    During his run into turning FIFTY, CHRIS EVANS is on a MISSION. To take stock of WHERE HE IS and WHERE HE'S AT in order to figure out how BEST to get the MOST out of what he BELIEVES are the BEST YEARS yet to come.His typically positive and upbeat journey involves ONE HUNDRED DAYS of contemplation, research, focus, frustration and DECISION MAKING while SECRETLY:*Training for Th...
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    9,99 €

  • SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
    SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
    THOMAS AQUINAS
    St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it, to explore spiritual revelation, makes his work fresh and highly readable today. While drawing on a strong distinction between theology and philosophy, Aquinas interleaved them intricately ...
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    12,50 €

  • LET'S GO FOR A DRIVE!
    LET'S GO FOR A DRIVE!
    MO WILLEMS
    Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases, this highly original book from the award-winning author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is perfect for children just learning to read. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Geral...
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    9,99 €

  • BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the ma...
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    18,75 €

  • THE DHAMMAPADA
    THE DHAMMAPADA
    'Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.' Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take...
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    5,00 €

  • DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 2
    DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 2
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister and avenge his family!In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous j...
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  • CHANGE
    CHANGE
    ÉDOUARD LOUIS
    The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy 'One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation' Keiran Goddard, Guardian 'Change fills me with admiration and inspiration, as well as renewed faith in writing itself' Maggie Nelson 'One of the major writers of our time' Garth Greenwell 'A mesmeric novel' ...
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    12,50 €

  • RIGHT THING, RIGHT NOW
    RIGHT THING, RIGHT NOW
    RYAN HOLIDAY
    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - HOW TO HARNESS THE LIFE-CHANGING POWER OF INTEGRITY'A message all of us need to hear' Arnold Schwarzenegger'This book is a gift to humanity' Dr. Edith Eva EgerFor the Stoics, justice was more than an idea. It was a way of life, a personal commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult the path. Our ability to live by our values a...
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    13,75 €

  • UNKNOWN PLEASURES
    UNKNOWN PLEASURES
    BROOMFIELD PUBLISHING
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    12,50 €

  • DEAR IJEAWELE
    DEAR IJEAWELE
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen inv...
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  • TAKING MY GOD FOR A WALK
    TAKING MY GOD FOR A WALK
    TONY COLLINS
    With retirement looming, Tony Collins chose to use a long-overdue sabbatical to walk the 490 miles of the Camino, from the French border to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. He was deliberately stepping out of his comfort zone: making a pilgrimage, carrying his pack, through a land whose language he did not speak, into a religious culture far removed from his own, in se...
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    11,25 €

  • LESSONS IN POWER
    LESSONS IN POWER
    JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
    This mystery thriller by the Number One bestselling author of The Inheritance Games is a gripping story of high stakes, betrayal, and unpredictable twists. Perfect for fans of A Good Girls Guide to Murder. Knowledge is power, but secrets can kill . . . For Tess Kendrick, a student at the elite Hardwicke School, making problems disappear runs in the family. But Tess has another ...
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  • LORD JIM
    LORD JIM
    JOSEPH CONRAD
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    8,75 €

  • WATCHMEN
    WATCHMEN
    ALAN MOORE
    In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. 'Watchmen' begins as a murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to a head, the unlikely group of reunited heroes - Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr...
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    27,50 €

  • RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
    RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
    ARTHUR C. CLARKE
    "The enigmatic object christened Rama was detected while still outside the orbit of Jupiter. A first radar contact at such a distance was unprecedented, indicating that Rama was of exceptional size. As it raced through the Solar System, it became apparent that Rama was a cylinder so geometrically perfect that it might have been turned on a gigantic lathe. Mankind was about to r...
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  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.'Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into th...
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